Conservative opposition party wins Czech Senate election

PRAGUE (AP) — A conservative opposition party in the Czech Republic has won an election for a third of the seats in Parliament’s upper house as the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Andrej Babis suffered a setback.

With nearly all the votes counted Saturday by the Statistics Office, the Civic Democratic Party won 10 of the 27 seats up for grabs in the 81-seat Senate in the two-round election.

Babis’ ANO (YES) centrist movement and its coalition partner, the leftist Social Democrats, won only one seat each.